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From: Denis Zaitsev <zzz@anda.ru>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.8.1/x86] The kernel is _always_ compiled with -msoft-float
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:39:11 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915033911.B1621@natasha.ward.six> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040915021418.A1621@natasha.ward.six>; from zzz@anda.ru on Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:14:18AM +0600

Thank everybody.

Whould it be better to document the trick?  At least, this will
prevent the others from suspicions.


--- arch/i386/Makefile.orig	2004-08-14 16:55:10.000000000 +0600
+++ arch/i386/Makefile	2004-09-15 03:37:49.000000000 +0600
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ OBJCOPYFLAGS	:= -O binary -R .note -R .c
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=
 CHECK		:= $(CHECK) -D__i386__=1
 
+# The FP must not be used in the kernel code.  So, the bogus compiler
+# flag is here to catch such an attempts at the link stage.
 CFLAGS += -pipe -msoft-float
 
 # prevent gcc from keeping the stack 16 byte aligned

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14 20:14 Denis Zaitsev
2004-09-14 19:36 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 20:39 ` Brian Gerst
2004-09-14 20:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-14 20:45 ` Dave Jones
2004-09-14 20:48 ` Matt Mackall
2004-09-14 21:39 ` Denis Zaitsev [this message]
2004-09-15 15:35 ` Tonnerre
2004-09-15 15:51   ` Ian Campbell

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